By the 18th Century the wheel was no longer turned by the potter's foot but by small boys apprenticed to the potter, and since the 19th century the motive power has been mechanical. The first evidence ...

Do you remember when you first tried your skills in using the potter’s wheel? My first attempt was made secretly. I don’t know why I thought that people in my workplace at that time would ...

"This early use paved the way for future wheel-based rotational innovations, key advancements that revolutionized human technological history such as the potter’s wheel and the cartwheel that ...

Key Stage 2: History – look at the pottery produced by the earliest civilisations which they study – the first potter’s wheel was invented in Ancient Sumer and it was this which led to the ...